When Huai Shi and the others rushed onto the deck, they couldn't even see a single figure.

All the seafarers were gone.

Or rather, they're all dead.

All that's left in place is a handful of white ashes and a new uniform...... Wait, eighty percent new?

It seems that the detection skill is quite successful, and Huai Shi actually found additional information, such as the newness of the uniform, and even ...... The material of that handful of ashes.

Huai Shi put on her gloves, carefully twisted a handful, and sniffed it.

Thanks to Van Helsing's excellent alchemy, he was able to distinguish the ingredients almost immediately—calcium, carbon, phosphorus, sodium, and so on...... Almost all of them are rare ingredients in the human body.

That is, this is the ashes of the crew?

Huai Shi couldn't believe that there could be any force that burned all the crew members to ashes from the inside out in an instant, but it didn't leave a single scorch mark on the uniform.

It can be seen that these guys basically have no reaction and struggle, and they are burned out in an instant.

And it's all together, otherwise there wouldn't have been no anomalies found.

So many quantities and such terrifying precision...... Is it really human?

But as he turned over the ashes, he found a charred note from it...... When he rummaged through the other ashes, he found the same note inside.

Burned in an instant, the fragile notes were still curly, shattered to the touch. With the vampire's astonishing vision, he could tell that the charred notes had been written on them, and they looked like a name.

On every note.

"Artificial humans. Ai Qing categorically concluded: "These guys are all artificial people, and they imitate the small miracles created by humans through alchemy. ”

Huai Shi couldn't help but smack her tongue.

Of course, he knew that it was actually a tool often used in alchemy, and it could be said that it had a rather ancient history.

The doll, created directly from various metals, elements, and a large amount of water, has no self-will, and can almost be described as a puppet like the walking dead.

Before making them, they would put a note with their name written on it into a container, and they would work through that name.

But the biggest limitation is that this kind of artificial human can only maintain a maximum of one day and night.

No matter when it is born, once it hits the next day, the sunlight will collapse on its own.

This is a flaw that no alchemist, no matter how brilliant it is, throughout the ages.

But the crew of the entire ship turned out to be androids, and it was unbelievable that they looked so agile and even had great strength.

"Don't be in a daze. Ai Qing suddenly woke up: "Go to the captain's room, immediately!"

Huai Shi bowed her head, followed Ai Qing's instructions, turned around and dived into the cabin, and silently ran towards the captain's room at the top.

Regardless of whether the captain still existed at this time, if there was anything wrong with the ship, there would definitely be some traces in the captain's room. Even if there is nothing, at least you can find information about the ship and information about the New World.

But his speed was already slow, and when he was speeding all the way towards the captain's room, he had already seen the figure on the road who also rushed towards the captain's room, not only Lao Xiao and a few of them, but the rather strange couple in the restaurant last night was also rushing towards the captain's room.

While running forward, the dusty wife was still counting her man and delaying time. But when they slammed open the door to the captain's cabin, they saw only a chair.

Empty.

There was nothing here at all except that one chair. Right on the chair, the captain's loose uniform could be seen, and the ashes remained.

There were still drinks left in the slanted bottles on the floor, and the carpet showed signs of being soaked.

It was as if he was still drinking in the last moments before it dissipated, not expecting the destruction that would follow in an instant. Or maybe it was expected, but at the last minute, it chose to have fun in time.

Now the bottle had fallen to the ground, soaked with the ashes of his collapse, and in the dust a wildflower that seemed to have been plucked from a tree on the shore could be seen.

There is still a faint fragrance.

It is as if the meaning of life has been found in the short time of life and death, and when he leaves, he seems to have been liberated.

It's a puppet with no shell, but it's like a real human.

Among the people who followed behind, someone exclaimed softly, and when Huai Shi looked back, she saw Hela with a stunned face.

She glanced at the ashes on the ground, and her expression changed, as if pity.

Soon, he turned and left.

Nothing.

Huai Shi sighed, turned around and prepared to leave, but suddenly there was a pause in her footsteps, and she heard an extra footstep from the chaotic voices and the sounds of rummaging around.

Thanks to the vampire's excellent hearing and vision, Huai Shi even saw the dust on the ground rising for no reason.

It was like getting stuck in the gap between a pair of shoes.

He narrowed his eyes and watched the few specimens of dust silently depart in the chaos, and he hung far behind the footsteps, following them.

It seems to hang out.

He walked to the back of the deck that was now empty, looked at the glimmer of the morning light in the distance, sighed, looked down and took out a bag of tobacco and a stack of white paper from his bosom, skillfully rolled one out, and lit it at the corner of his mouth.

Then, drawing the knife from his back, the short knife roared and slashed at the quietly departing footsteps behind him.

"Get out of here!"

In an instant, the blade broke through the air, and a figure suddenly appeared in the void, parrying the knife in embarrassment, but it was a yin figure.

Red Hat's stealth ability is truly terrifying, and even the vampire's unique thermal vision is difficult to find any traces. But Yin Yan's stealth technique was so picky that he didn't even notice the two grains of dust under his feet that followed him all the way.

"Don't do it!" he waved his hand in a panic: "My own people...... Own people ......"

"It's your own people who cut it!"

A shrill voice burst out.

The short knife grazed the side of his ear and nailed it to the cabin, startling him before he could react, and then he was held down by Huai Shi and choked his neck.

"Dude, spare your life, spare your life......" His eyes widened and he raised his hands: "I surrender, how about I surrender? The two of us don't have to fight around because of Ai Qing's stinky woman, right?"

Huai Shi was stunned for a moment, and then shuddered.

How did he know that he was acting freely now, not controlled by Ai Qing.

"I'm familiar with her, buddy, much better than you. Yin Yan saw his stunned expression, knew that he had guessed correctly, and couldn't help grinning: "I know who that mad dog is going to bite as soon as she opens her mouth...... You're so harmless, so harmless that I feel good.

Don't kill me, how about I go out and give you money? Don't worry, I will never talk nonsense to others, really!

Besides, it's not worth it to be born and die for that lame, you don't know how many people she has pitted, right? As long as it is profitable, she even sold her own father ......."

Boom!

Huai Shi's face was expressionless, and he raised his hand with a punch and knocked out one of his teeth: "Say a few words, no one treats you as a dead person!"

Yin Yan obediently shut up, raised his hands, and blinked his eyes.

Ai Qing didn't seem to be ready to express her opinion, and left all this to Huai Shi to decide.

"What did you take from the captain's room?" Huai Shi asked coldly, "Don't lie, you only have one chance." You have to understand: even teammates...... It doesn't have to be one more of you. ”

Yin Yan definitely rushed to the captain's room at the first time, and the false door that opened with a push was one of the evidence. If he didn't find anything, he didn't have to run out stealthily and just stand there.

"I ...... I'm just scared of trouble......"

Huai Shi listened, and indifferently pulled out a quenched flying knife from his cuff: "If you lie again in the next sentence, I will ask your cousin how to use it on you." ”

"Wait, wait!"

Yin Yan hurriedly begged for mercy, and was about to speak, when his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked behind Huai Shi with a look of surprise.

Huai Shi sneered and didn't look back.

This kind of trick wants to be used on my little Page on Huaihai Road, I'm afraid you don't think too much! I've been playing this game since I was eight years old!

But then, behind his supposed empty back, a sharp and gloomy voice suddenly sounded.

"Young man, what are you going to do to my dear traveling companion?"

Huai Shi looked back in amazement, but saw the old lady who appeared behind her at some point, her luxurious dress was now stained with blood, and she was still carrying a dead chicken in her hand, her hair was unkempt, and she looked like a female madwoman.

But such an old madman appeared behind him inexplicably......

Yin Yan took the opportunity to break free from his restraints, and then hid beside her, and threw out sweetly without money: "Honey, you came just in time."

Otherwise, the secret I was going to share with you will be taken away by this guy. ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the old woman like a loyal dog.

That's right, it was the piece of paper that the captain took out and read last night in the dining room.

The mad woman looked at Huai Shi coldly, and a murderous intent locked on him, causing him to break out in a cold sweat...... Is he going to die at the hands of this bastard concubine today?

Damn, I knew you kid was a two-five boy!

But soon, the killing intent dissipated as she took the piece of paper from Yin Yan's hand, and when she lowered her eyes to look at the paper, she was stunned for a moment, and then an unconcealable consternation appeared...... and fear.

The palms of the hands trembled.

Huai Shi stood on tiptoe and quietly looked at the paper, and saw that the words on the paper were exactly the words that the captain had read in public last night, but there was one more signature.

A quirky signature.

It seems to be an archaic character scrawled, but the writing is not confined to the usual left-to-right or top-down, but almost casually twists and turns on the page, with sharp corners, and at the end, the beginning and the end.

It has been transformed into a star-like pattern.

Wisps of jet-black ink emanated from its tracks, radiating out like the light of a star.

Huaishi can almost distinguish the scribbled characters, which are records that the crow forcibly brainwashed himself into into the Book of Destiny when he taught himself the origins of alchemy, one of the oldest scripts in the West, Hebrew.

"Heller...... Root...... Shahar?"

He frowned and stumbled over the characters.

At that moment, the old woman raised her head suddenly, her original blue pupils had turned blood-red, and she didn't know whether it was fear or madness, her distorted face spasmed in one place, and she roared at him almost like a roar:

"—not to pronounce that name!!"